Interestingly, the idea of using microbes to create an image is not new. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club by virtue of paintings he made by growing different colored bacteria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
Attempts to categorize regions according to their "main problem" lack a necessary insight, which is that AIDS and hunger and poverty (and MANY other thgings) are extremely interrelated issues. They help cause each other, through a variety of means that are obvious enough with a little educated thought. There is often no "root cause," rather only a synergy of problems that may come to a head in one form or another. So the question becomes... where does one start? I would propose that any attempt to alleviate a *single* affliction is doomed to failure: that without utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to solve as many as possible of such interrelated issues as AIDS and poverty, any effort, no matter how well-funded or well-intentioned, is is a short-lived band-aid.
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Interestingly, the idea of using microbes to create an image is not new. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club by virtue of paintings he made by growing different colored bacteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
Attempts to categorize regions according to their "main problem" lack a necessary insight, which is that AIDS and hunger and poverty (and MANY other thgings) are extremely interrelated issues. They help cause each other, through a variety of means that are obvious enough with a little educated thought. There is often no "root cause," rather only a synergy of problems that may come to a head in one form or another. So the question becomes... where does one start?
I would propose that any attempt to alleviate a *single* affliction is doomed to failure: that without utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to solve as many as possible of such interrelated issues as AIDS and poverty, any effort, no matter how well-funded or well-intentioned, is is a short-lived band-aid.